Strange, but I've never thought or heard of any package system a' la 'ports' or 'fink' available for NeXT systems.

With all the new packages and libraries available, not to mention all the third party stuff in various repo mirrors, maybe it's worth back-porting Fink?

Something like fink, etc would be great, but how many people actually compile stuff on their systems these days? Most ports are never the "same." Even a slightly newer version can require a completely different "patch." It'd take more than a few dedicated people to manage a "ports" system. I personally would love to see it & I'd be willing to help. The only problem is, I don't have "hours" a week to dedicate to something like this. Probably only one or two. Take care

I'm not familiar with apt, but I do agree that a ports-alike system would be useless on non-x86 systems. Something like the RedHat Package Manager (or whatever similar app Linux users use these days) would be sufficient.